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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Art Defense Myself Poem Stand Support
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Education Learning Lesson Oneself Teaching Thinking
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Decision Lying Serious Talk Try
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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Book Essence Fall In Love Growth Leaving Production Reading Strange
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Art Celebration Different Dreams Law Mythology Society Song Wake Up

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